G K Chesterton was a man of colossal intellect and wit, says Robert Douglas-Fairhurst , but his work also reveals a child-like innocence: GK Chesterton was one of the giants of early 20th-century literature. If that description makes him sound less like a human being than a fairy-tale creature, . . . . Continue Reading »
Turn off the SportsCenter and listen up fellows, I’m about to tell you key to being happier : Send your wife to church and the ballpark while you head to a ballet and the latest Monet exhibit. Men who enjoy taking in the ballet or browsing art museums are more likely to be happy with their . . . . Continue Reading »
“Who would actually think they are able to do a job of this significance and this difficulty?” Gayle recently spoke with former Senator Rick Santorum about faith, politics, the presidency, and life. Click here to listen to our fifteen minute discussion or read the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Obama Administration is, unsurprisingly, not happy that Indiana has cut off its special pet Planned Parenthood from Medicaid payments. And it threatens to do something about it. But apparently, that “something” is cutting off the federal share of Medicaid funding to the . . . . Continue Reading »
Reflecting on Kevin Kiley’s article “Long Reads” at Inside Higher Ed, Erin O’Connor writes:Teaching high school for a year at a very interesting little Berkshire boarding school got me onto shared class reading projects–the kids I was teaching were very smart, but, like . . . . Continue Reading »
Gallup has a interesting new poll out. When asked whether “pro life” or “pro choice,” more say the latter than the former. From the poll:Americans are closely divided between those calling themselves “pro-choice” and those who are “pro-life,” now . . . . Continue Reading »
A couple of months ago, Inside Higher Ed published an article by Joshua Wolff making a passionate case that many Christian colleges, in adhering to the traditions of faith and Scripture on sexual morality, do harm to their homosexual students. Wolff concluded that “accrediting bodies . . . . Continue Reading »
Suicide has become an obsession in certain quarters, and for a few suicide pushers, the basis for a personal cult. Australia’s Phillip Nitschke is one such cult leader. Nitschke is a blatant death-on-demander, who has for years pushed suicide machines, the “peaceful . . . . Continue Reading »
(Note: This is fifth and final entry in a series on the suicides of three detainees at Guantanamo Bay in 2006. The other entries are listed at the bottom of this post.) For over a year I’ve written about Harper’s Magazine and their “Guantanamo Murders” conspiracy , most . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s second On the Square feature, Matthew Hennessey explains what’s wrong with Texas’ new law requiring women seeking an abortion to view a sonogram image: Unfortunately, however, the Texas law reinforces what I consider a morally repellent notion—that pregnant women . . . . Continue Reading »
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